It had just enough mystery with just the right level of predictability that I wanted to stay there as long as possible. When I finally picked up The Lake House it was precisely the book I needed at just the right time. But that's another story for another time. Which is the situation I found myself in with Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, leading to me not being one of the worshipful majority. Not only is the book too close for comfort, but once you put it down you'll be faced with reality again. Other times it backfires on you and all the troubles you were trying to escape are reflected back at you through this medium. Sometimes it works and you fall into the story and it consumes you. There are times in your life when you just need to get away from reality and hide in a book. Will a fresh set of eyes find the truth of that long ago midsummer night? Sadie stumbles on Loeanneth and the cold case consumes her. She's on leave from the MET with a forced vacation in Cornwall at her grandfather's house. Alice is now a successful mystery writer but she has never resolved what happened to her baby brother. Seventy years later the case remains unsolved.

But could her book be what destroyed everything? Because in the wee hours of the night her baby brother Theo was taken from his crib. He listens raptly when she tells him about her book and talks to her like an equal. Ben is the gardener and she fancies herself in love with him. She only has time for two things, plotting her first mystery novel and Ben. Llewellyn, artist in resident and family friend, or her mother who wants her to help with preparations. Young Alice Edevane would usually be reveling in these festivities, but this year is different. Soon the house will be shuttered and it will be a time capsule of that night the night everything changed. It is 1933 and this will be the last year the family holds this celebration. While the Edevane family might enjoy their solitude in Cornwall, they still keep this tradition alive.

The lake house is strewn with lanterns and gondolas float on the river with fireworks dazzling the night sky above the great bonfire. Midsummer has always been celebrated at Loeanneth with a grand gala.

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